Javier Duarte de Ochoa

Javier Duarte de Ochoa (19 September 1973-) was Governor of Veracruz from 1 December 2010 to 12 October 2016, succeeding Fidel Herrera Beltran and preceding Flavino Rios Alvarado. He was a PRI politician, and he was known for his corruption.

Biography
Javier Duarte de Ochoa was born in Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico in 1973, and he worked for the Interior Ministry from the 1990s. In 2004, he was appointed to several state government positions, and he became a PRI deputy in 2009. In 2010, he was elected Governor of Veracruz, and he was deeply involved with corruption; he may have embezzled $25,000,000, was suspected of having a role in the burying of 250 bodies in mass graves, and was responsible for Veracruz becoming one of the ten most dangerous places in the world for journalists. After a wave of corruption scandals and his loss of PRI membership in 2016, he was forced to resign, and he was arrested after attempting to flee to Guatemala.